NEW YORK (Dispatches) – The occupied Golan Heights will always remain an integral part of Syria and the Zionist regime’s occupation of the heights is a violation of international laws, Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations says.
"The occupied Golan is part and parcel of Syria and regaining it, until the line of June 4th, 1967, with all means guaranteed by the international law, is a priority to us,” Bashar al- Bashar al-Jaafari said addressing a UN Security Council session.
Washington proclamation on occupied al-Quds and the occupied Syrian Golan was a unilateral act and issued by a party that has no political, nor legal capacity to dispose of parts of the Syrian Arab Republic and occupied Palestine, he added.
"Syria calls on UNSC to force the Israeli occupation to stop its practices in the Syrian Golan and looting its resources including oil,” al-Jaafari stressed, SANA reported.
He said that the regime’s measures in occupied Palestine and occupied Syrian Golan gravely violate the international law.
On March 25 last year, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a decree that suited the regime’s interest regarding the Golan Heights. The signing took place at the start of a meeting with Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
Trump’s move came over a year after he recognized al-Quds as the "capital” of Israel and moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied Palestinian city.
The United Nations has time and again stressed Syria’s sovereignty over the heights.
Back in December 2018, the majority of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution urging the Zionist regime to withdraw from Golan.